Egg hatching of the monogenean Heterobothrium okamotoi, a gill parasite of cultured tiger puffer (Takifugu rubripes), with a description of its oncomiracidium

Fish Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-30

  Ogawa, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hatching; Heterobothrium okamotoi; Monogenea; Oncomiracidium; Takifugu rubripes; Tiger puffer

Indexed keywords

DICLIDOPHORA; DICLIDOPHORIDAE; HETEROBOTHRIUM; MONOGENEA; PANTHERA TIGRIS; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 0032392241     PISSN: 0388788X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3147/jsfp.33.25     Document Type: Article

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